Slanted: Play The System
Editor Heike Grebin
Publisher Slanted Publishers UG
“In graphic design, the focus is rarely on the spontaneous stroke of genius—it’s rather about a process-oriented approach to design. Digital tools, algorithms, and systems increasingly shape not only the final outcome but also the process itself. As a result, the role of the designer is changing: instead of crafting every detail, they increasingly design the framework in which design emerges.
“Play the System demonstrates, through selected examples from design history and academic teaching, how even minimal changes to individual parameters such as size, color, spacing, or movement—driven by input values, chance, or external influences—lead to different outcomes and open up space for variation, experimentation, and surprise.“
“Conversations with designers, programmers, and researchers such as Luna Maurer, Anja Groten, Frieder Nake, and Tom Bieling address key questions: How do systems foster—or limit—creativity? How do tools influence aesthetic decisions? And how can design respond to the structures of society itself?
“Play the System is a reader, an introduction, and a richly illustrated archive—all in one. Bringing together theory, education, and practice, it makes system-based and parametric design accessible to readers beyond the design discipline.
Softcover
9.5 x 6.5 inches
320 pages
2026
“Play the System is a reader, an introduction, and a richly illustrated archive—all in one. Bringing together theory, education, and practice, it makes system-based and parametric design accessible to readers beyond the design discipline.
Softcover
9.5 x 6.5 inches
320 pages
2026
